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For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 11, 2021Media contact: Myra Dahgaypaw, U.S. Campaign for Burma +1 718 207-2556Moon Nay Li, Kachin Women’s Association of Thailand +66 85 625 1912Naw Wah Ku Shee, Karen Support Peace Network +66 86 118 2261 (Washington, DC, February 11, 2021) – Today, 165 ethnic community organizations in Burma and from around the world […]
1 February 2021: The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) strongly condemns the actions of the Myanmar Tatmadaw which led to the arrest and detainment of Government officials, including State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President, U Win Myint. The arrests were made early in the morning as those in Burma […]
Date: 19 January 2021 Burma Army persecution of civilians continues in Kawng Kha, six years after the rape-murder of two Kachin teachers On the six-year anniversary of the rape-murder of two Kachin teachers in Kawng Kha village, Muse District, KWAT reiterates our calls for justice and an end to ongoing Burma Army aggression and persecution […]
To: Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council Subject: Open letter from Myanmar civil society organizations to the UN Human Rights Council on the deteriorating human rights situation in Myanmar during the COVID-19 crisis Your Excellencies, On the occasion of the International Day of Peace, which falls on 21 September, we, 364 […]
Date: 3rd September, 2020 “Guarding profits not lives”: New report exposes Burma Army role in deadly Gwihka landslide A new report by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) places blame on Burma Army troops for failing to enforce safety regulations at the Gwihka Mine in Hpakant, which could have prevented the deaths of about 300 jade […]
On July 2, 2020, about 300 mine workers died in a deadly landslide at a jade mine at Gwihka in Hpakant, Kachin State. The casualties were all jade scavengers, working in a mine that was officially closed for the rainy season. Most media reports have blamed the disaster on poor law enforcement, and on the […]
Date: 16th July 2020 Kachin Women’s Association – Thailand (KWAT) and Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) are releasing a new report on access to justice in Burma, in which we identify strategies for local civil society groups, demand political and legal reforms, and call on donor agencies to better support assistance to victims of the most […]
An analysis of obstacles and opportunities for civil society groups pursuing accountability for human rights violations in domestic courts in Kachin and Northern Shan state.
At the International Court of Justice on December 11, 2019, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi claimed that the Burma military justicesystem is willing and able to prosecute possible war crimes committed by its soldiers. Decades of human rights violations and impunity show the hypocrisy of this statement. The failure of domestic mechanisms to provide justice […]
အိတ်ဖွင့်ပေးစာ ရက်စွဲ ။ ။ ၂၆၊ ၆၊၂၀၂၀ သို့ နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ ဦးဝင်းမြင့် နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတရုံး၊ နေပြည်တော် ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်။ အကြောင်းအရာ။ ။ ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှုပပျောက်ရေးနှင့် ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခံရသူများအား ကူညီထောက်ပံ့ ရေးအတွက် အိတ်ဖွင့်ပေးစာပေးပို့ခြင်း။ (၁) ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှုကင်းစင်ရေးနှင့် ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခံလူသားများ၏ တရားမျှတမှု၊ ပြန်လည် ကုစားခွင့်နှင့် အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းမှုဆိုင်ရာတရားမျှတမှုလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များ အကောင်အထည်ဖော် ဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်းသည် ဒီမိုကရေစီ၊ အမျိုးသားပြန်လည်သင့်မြတ်ရေးနှင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး အောင် အောင်မြင်မြင် ဖော်ဆောင်မှုအတွက် အဓိကကျသော အခန်းကဏ္ဍတစ်ခုအဖြစ် ရှိနေသည်ကို မိမိတို့ လက်ခံယုံကြည်ပါ သည်။ (၂) ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှုဟုဆိုရာ၌ စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာနှင့် ရုပ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်မှု အဖြစ်ရှိရာ အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာလူ့အခွင့်အရေးကြေညာစာတမ်းအပိုဒ်(၅)တွင် မည်သူ့ကိုမှ ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ် စက်ခြင်း၊ သို့မဟုတ် ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ် လူမဆန်စွာ ဂုဏ်ငယ်စေသော ဆက်ဆံမှုဖြင့် မဆက်ဆံရ၊ […]
The Burmese military has ruled and waged civil war within the territory of the union of Burma for many decades. As a result, Kachin and non-Burman ethnicities have been enduring severe hardship, such as impoverishment, and lack of access to health and education. In 1994, a ceasefire agreement was signed between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO/A) and the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), but did not lead to any political negotiation. Instead, the SPDC took advantage of the agreement to start large-scale extraction of natural resources from the territory of Kachin State.
Kachin Women’s Association Thailand Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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